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On the recordRead 12 Oct 202629 facts
Cobalt
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- Ads and tracking
- Cobalt says it has no ads or trackers and does not store or track information about individual people.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Cobalt says it uses self-hosted Plausible for anonymous, aggregated traffic analytics and provides an option to opt out.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Audio options
- Audio settings offer Best, MP3, OGG, WAV, and Opus formats and bitrate choices from 320kb/s to 8kb/s.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Community instances
- Cobalt warns that it does not control community processing instances and advises users to choose hosts they trust.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Device platforms
- webcobalt.tools · read 20 Sep 2026
- Device processing
- When supported, media requiring additional processing is processed on the user’s device; otherwise, server processing streams the result without storing it on disk.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Formats
- Cobalt’s remux tool supports MP4, WebM, MP3, OGG, Opus, WAV, and M4A files.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting protections
- The privacy policy says Cloudflare is used for DDoS and abuse protection, bot protection, and hosting and deploying the web app.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker says Cobalt is used by artists, educators, and content creators.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Cobalt says its downloader can only download free and publicly accessible content.github.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Local processing
- Cobalt says remuxing and transcoding can happen directly on the user's device; its remux page says files stay on the device.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Maximum video quality
- 8kcobalt.tools · read 20 Sep 2026
- Output formats
- MP4,WebM,MKV,MP3,OGG,WAV,Opus,GIFcobalt.tools · read 20 Sep 2026
- Pricing model
- Cobalt describes itself as a service made for public benefit and not for profit, and invites users to support it with donations.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Cobalt says temporary tunnel data is encrypted with AES-256, stored in server RAM for 90 seconds, and then irreversibly purged.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cobalt helps users save video, audio, photos, and GIFs from websites by pasting a link.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Remux behavior
- Cobalt says remuxing copies existing codec data into a new container without re-encoding the media.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
- Remux formats
- The remux page lists MP4, WebM, MP3, OGG, Opus, WAV, and M4A as supported formats.cobalt.tools · read 12 Oct 2026
